SOBCon ’07 will be a different kind of conference. We’re all about community and building relationships with other bloggers.

We spend so much time writing to each other (and sometimes about each other) that it is sometimes easy to forget that there is an actual person who is doing that writing on the other end.

I thought it would be a good idea to give you a little voice message and share why this conference experience will be different from other conferences you may have attended.

I used the Evoca browser mic to record this message and their player to bring it to you here.

Evoca is one of our event sponsors and they are offering conference attendees something special. (But I think I’ll make you wait until tomorrow to find out what it is. )

Take a listen.

Do you want to leave a voice comment in response to this message? Here is the link.

Do you want to keep track of all the recordings that are made about SOBCon? We’ve got an SOBCon Evoca Group so you can do just that. And it even has it’s own RSS feed! Check it out.

Did you see that we’re kicking off SOBCon ’07 with a concert by our very own blogging friend Christine Kane?

Oh, man! You are going to want to be there because this is a treat you won’t want to miss. She already has 5 CD’s published. And check out what she has to say about the conference.

It’s your chance to meet other bloggers, build important relationships, learn how to make your web guy obsolete (just kidding Brent), and take your blogging life to the next level. (Or, if you’re like me, to the next point on the long upward sloping continuum.)

Anyway, here’s where it gets fun for me…

I’ll be the person who opens the whole conference on Friday night with a live performance. (Oddly enough, they’ve invited me to perform, as opposed to giving a lecture on, say, “Surefire Ways to Optimize your Blog for Viral Marketing and Other Business-y Sounding Things.”)

I’m sure Christine has great ideas on blog marketing, but take a listen to this audio sample (RealPlayer version) of the title track from her latest album, Right Outta Nowhere and you’ll see why we asked her to perform instead. Very good stuff!

We’ll see you there!

Sometimes when you register for a conference and you look at the schedule you see those painful words “Lunch on your own”.

You know what that means – rush to get out of the room as soon as the session is over so you can find a restaurant within walking distance before the line gets to long.

Well that won’t be a problem at SOBCon ’07! Just look at our schedule.

Our plan includes a reception on Friday evening during the Live Open Mic night. I had to ask our folks in charge what “reception” meant. They said, “We’ll have light hors d’oeuvres.”

My immediate response to that was, “Sounds French!” (Felt a little silly after I said that. Oops!)

Then on Saturday we’ll have what they call “Breaks” in the morning and the afternoon. The people in the know said there will be coffee available.

Can I get a cheer from all you caffeine addicts out there?!

But that’s not the best part. [Read more…]

We’ve had some requests for help here at SOBEvent.com.

Apparently there are some employers that are balking at the idea of sending their employees to SOBCon ’07. Or at least there are some employees who suspect their employers might balk a the idea.

Well we’re here to help. We’ve put together a little memorandum that’s guaranteed to convince your boss to send you to SOBCon ’07.

Oh. Wait. Well, it stands a chance…

Our legal department is balking about the guarantee thing.

How about we say you could just give it a whirl and see how it goes? You can’t get what you don’t ask for, right?

Just copy the below into your own document, change the particulars for your unique situation, print it out and pass it to your boss.

We sincerely hope you aren’t escorted back to your desk to howls of laughter… [Read more…]

We’re pleased to announce that Vernon Lun and folks over at TheGoodBlogs have agreed to join with SOBCon07 as a sponsor!

TheGoodBlogs is a company that is working to create community amongst bloggers so partnering with us here at SOBCon seems like a natural fit. Check out their Goal from their Concept page:

To create distributed communities of bloggers who actively promote each other every time readers visit their blogs.

You say you don’t know what TheGoodBlogs is all about? Take a look at this cool graphic they put together to explain what it is they do: [Read more…]